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Advantages: Great listenDisadvantages: Other passengers will wonder why you are laughing

This is one of Douglas Adam's lesser known novels but just as good as the more well known Hitchhiker's series. If you have ever lived through the interminable time between teatime and supper on a Sunday afternoon you will identify with this book and enjoy ...

...is a huge, sprawling monster of an 'audiobook'. So I have a choice, do I do a huge, sprawling monster of an op and really do it justice, or just enough to whet folks' appetites to let them go and find out for themselves?
Well, given the price (vol ...

Advantages: AWESOMEDisadvantages: extremely long, may keep you from important engagements.

'The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy' is an indulgent treat for lovers of surreal comedy everywhere. If you have seen the film and thought it was good, you were wrong, and should definitely listen to the radio series or perhaps read the book.
As the se ...

Advantages: Hilarious, Classic, Well-written, Well-acted, generally brilliant.Disadvantages: Not in a terribly convenient format for listening to one episode at a time

...I listened to these tapes before I ever read the books, and I must say I’m glad I did so. Douglas Adams was a great writer, but his characterisations were inconsistent to say the least; he is said to have arbitrarily swapped lines of dialogue between char ...

Advantages: Brilliant characters, clever humour, brilliantly readDisadvantages: Can't think of any, even though I listen to this over and over again

...Ok, before I get going on this opinion, I must confess I’ve never read this book, only listened to the tape. I have the tape of the first series, the radio 4 version, and although I have often considered reading the book, which we do own, the tempta ...